<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/12712e16-6bd3-4f96-96bd-0a8f0882e00a/63EA7308-EB50-43C0-BA06-9007ABC842F0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.examiner.com/x-1320-Seeking-Balance-Examiner~y2008m12d31-Shocking-teen-pregnancies-of-2008?cid=examiner-email" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-1320-Seeking-Balance-Examiner~y2008m12d31-Shocking-teen-pregnancies-of-2008?cid=examiner-email" style="font-size: 11px;">www.examiner.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-1320-Seeking-Balance-Examiner~y2008m12d31-Shocking-teen-pregnancies-of-2008?cid=examiner-email"><H1> Shocking teen pregnancies in 2008 </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-1320-Seeking-Balance-Examiner~y2008m12d31-Shocking-teen-pregnancies-of-2008?cid=examiner-email"><DIV>According to a report released this past summer by the National Institutes of Health, teen pregnancy rates are up for the first time since 1991. What can this rise be attributed to? There are so many factors that come into play, but the images and messages that young teenage girls are getting from the media are certainly part of the equation.  </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-1320-Seeking-Balance-Examiner~y2008m12d31-Shocking-teen-pregnancies-of-2008?cid=examiner-email"><DIV>According to a recent <A href="http://www.examiner.com/x-1320-Seeking-Balance-Examiner~y2008m11d18-Shocking-results-of-teenage-girl-survey-on-sex-drugs-and-violence"><FONT color="#800080">study</FONT></A>, girls are on average, losing their virginity at the age of 15 and 52 percent of those girls don’t use protection when they have sex. Certainly shocking. There is no panacea to the trend in the rise of teen pregnancy, but education starts at home and I believe that parents have a huge responsibility and also carry a lot of weight in impacting the decisions that their kids make. But if the media continues to propel the notion that little girls should be young women, it could be an uphill battle in reversing this trend.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/63EA7308-EB50-43C0-BA06-9007ABC842F0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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